[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Hitch:

You might want to look at WriteItNow 5, which does have a timeline. It's available for both PCs and Mac.

Aeon Timeline is only available for the Mac.

StoryMill has a very, very limited timeline, which is not very functional or diverse, in my opinion.

If you have a PC, there are some timeline software programs available that are not available for the Mac, but I haven't tested them.

So, Question:

Does WIN5 do the timelining automatically, based on the scenes and characters in each? That's what YW does, and why I like it so much.

I do find that now that I've gotten deeper into my outlining (think more Ludlum-esque outlining than pantsing), I'm a bit frustrated with everything I have. When I work on my laptop, trying to flip back and forth between LSBXE/Word/YWriter is like....fuhgeddaboudit. I know that this is one of the reasons that many folks love LSBXE/Scrivener, because they have "everything" in one place--research, outlining tools, writing "part" (for lack of a better word), images, blabbety-blab, but honestly, for writing scenes, I find YWriter to be pretty damn good. And you *can* use it as an outlining tool, although I'm a bit spoiled with using either Word or (for this limited purpose) LSBXE, both of which of course use indentation for outlining, which to me is more helpful than YWriter's lack (for that). I mean--if someone is OCD (ahem, like someone typing this post) and needs to outline everything to death, using a (somewhat-more) visual method is helpful, in seeing things at a glance than YWriter's scene-structure layout.

@Penforhire:

I didn't explain my problem clearly. The Thinkpad Yoga tablet is "seen" as a tablet/phone, rather than a laptop, so I am forced to use the Dropbox "mobile" app. That means that the files are actually still in the cloud, on the server, and not really on the laptop. The relative dir structure isn't the same. The way that YW "works" is by launching the program, which then "views" or sees the scene files in a given relative position from the databases that store them. In Dropbox on the server, rather than synched on the actual device, it's not saved in the way that YW "needs" to see them, in order to work. (Sorry, that's long-winded, but...)

Thanks!
Hitch